The West Australian

Tim Bowness, one of the most expressive voices in contemporary music returns with the second chapter of his brand new, solo sonic experiments. Released roughly a year after Abandoned Dancehall Dreams, Stupid Things That Mean The World can be seen as a direct follow-up that not only manages to consolidate his strengths, but also seek to further explore new territories. I was anxious to hear the results as the man never fails to create something interesting and gripping. Although a sequel, STTMTW…

Kanye West (a.k.a Ye, a.k.a Yeezy, a.k.a Louis Vuitton Don) is a name that hasn’t left the media for the past decade. Perhaps due to his antics, his ever-evolving hairstyle, or his wildly (subjectively) overpriced fashion line, Kanye has had a visceral grip on the public. I’ve been entranced by him, but not because of his cool clothes or trendy music. He is my favourite artist because his ambition is unparalleled. He has worked for years to achieve the perfect sound, proving his musical caliber…

Is Eminem Indeed a “Rap God”? Since being thrown into the spotlight Eminem has thrived producing countless top tracks and albums becoming a household name. In his Grammy award winning album The Marshall Mathers LP 2, Slim Shady enhances his old persona in the song “Rap God”. Starting his career off as a battle rapper shows in this song as it is bursting with quick witted rhymes but in they way he wove them together shows how he has evolved as a lyricist. Marshall will no doubt go down in…

the same shoes as them and they continue to wear that brand. Even rapper Meek Mill started wearing New Balances and kids instantly followed the trend. Rapper Kanye West has made a major impact with his brand of shoe “Yeezy”. Kanye has been known for his…

Ghana was the very first west African empire to have trading systems going all throughout Africa. Ghana was the very first in the whole wide world to make and use iron weapons making that invention a gold mine in trading. Speaking of gold mines, Ghana had too many of them! They had so much gold they didn’t know what to do with it. They used it in women’s makeup so it would grab women’s attention in Ghana’s trading system also. They put their gold on weapons such as shields just because they…

“A physical manifestation of the struggle between Soviet Communism and American capitalism that stood for nearly thirty years, the Berlin Wall was the high-risk fault line between East and West on which rested the fate of all humanity.” (Taylor, vii) “I hope that those who live in more fortunate communities elsewhere in the world will summon up the imagination to conceive what it might have been like for Berliners to have such a barbarous fracture inflicted on their cities, their neighborhoods,…

The author of Ebola outbreak in West Africa, Chernoh Alpha M.Bah, explanation of the outbreak in Sierra Leon and how it influences people’s perception and the response to Ebola from both the political and social perceptive, is one of my favourite reading as it correlates to the topics discuss in lectures so far. As he demonstrated, structural violence in this case must be understood in the context of a regional history and global economy that have cultivated inequalities. For instance, it is no…

Tupac claims that the Thug Life isn’t something that can be found in the dictionary. It doesn’t mean violence, nor does it involve criminals quenching for blood or attempting to provoke a fight. According to Tracy Barhart, “There are actually 26 codes to the THUG life, and it is meant to bring positive rules of engagement into street gang warfare. But the youth of today are getting caught up in the glamor of what they see and hear in gangsta rap and MTV — much of the message being that…

majority in parliament and the CDU was the party of economic prosperity in West Germany. His government was conservative and anti communist and it pursued a policy of Western integration and complete hostility to the East. Few of its any members had opposed the Nazis, while some had actively supported that regime. Yet by 1969, Adenauer had many more of his Era were dead, while both the president and Chancellor of the West German state were men who had actively opposed Nazism. 1961 Election The…

It was an unusually cold day for Berlin in June. The year was 2014. The girl walked north from Potsdamer Platz towards Shonëberger Straße, passing a small piece of The Wall that was left standing, ironically juxtaposed against the high-rising Kolhoff Tower immediately behind it. The wall was crumbling and popping with political graffiti. Behind it, the tower was made almost entirely of glass, looking futuristic as it loomed atop the city skyline. This kind of contrast was not unusual in Berlin.…